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The Text Pre-process step cleans and normalizes a text column. It is the equivalent of the matching Alteryx tool and runs in the workflow engine (the ML / NLP / document libraries run in the executor job).

  • Source / Output tables — the input data and where the result is written.
  • Text column, output column, and toggles (remove digits / punctuation / stopwords, lemmatize).

The Columns tab maps the input columns passed through to the output.

In the KNIME Text Processing Node group, choose a KNIME Text Node (node) to run one of KNIME’s Text Processing nodes with this step — for example preprocess, tagger, bag_of_words, frequency, document_vector, keywords, topics, language, or the embedding nodes. The node’s own settings, such as Document Column (document_column) and Output Column (output_column), appear beside it in knime_config. Leave the node as (none) to run the step’s own settings. A converted KNIME workflow sets the same keys.

In the KNIME Node Tables group, a node that reads a second table, such as a dictionary, entity list, or vocabulary, reads Second Input Table (source_b) with the columns in Second Table Columns (source_b_columns). A node with further outputs writes them to the tables listed in Further Output Tables (targets), in order.